Chris Kameir

Past

Executive VP at Nikotel Inc
Project Manager at Nikoworld
Director of Operations at Bertelsmann

Project Manager at Bertelsmann

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Education

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Universität Bielefeld
Neuro-Linguistic Training Center

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Chris Kameir’s Summary

Executive with more than a decade of international experience within the Internet, Marketing, Telecommunication, and Software industries. Career includes key positions as Product Manager, VP of Operations and CEO with worldwide market leaders as well as successful start-ups. Experienced in IPO preparations and managing mergers and acquisitions in the $1 to $400 Million range. Skilled in all areas of executive management, including developing operations throughout Europe, South America and the US, designing innovative services and expanding into new industries and markets. Highly personable and capable of working with other executives, Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists and corporate controlled boards. Author of dozens of Software, Internet and Marketing related articles, multilingual and multicultural experience; fluent in English and German.

Chris Kameir’s Specialties:

• Building International Distribution Networks
• Raising Capital from Angel as well as institutional investors
• Product Management
• Strategic Planning / Business Models
• Leadership and presentation skills
• Growth Strategies
• Product Commercialization
• Broad Technical Understanding of Hard- and Software, including:
• Voicer over IP, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, XML

Chris Kameir’s Experience

Executive VP

Nikotel Inc

(Telecommunications industry)

October 2000 — April 2004 (3 years 7 months)

Nikotel is a global cutting edge software and telecommunication company selling services based on Voice over IP (VoIP). It is the worldwide price leader for terminating voice traffic into the US. Its German subsidiary Econo GmbH, provides games, pictures and other services for mobile devices.
• Established network of 750 partners and agents in 63 countries for successful distribution of services.
• Managed five legal entities with a total of 160 employees in three countries.
• Presented company vision and structure to VCs and private investors.
• Negotiated and directed contracts and partnerships with worldwide carriers
• Developed US and South American business models through the evaluation of the US and Brazilian Internet and VoIP market.
• Established product requirements for both software and hardware solutions
• Lead company developments from idea to user-friendly products.
Project Manager

Nikoworld

(Internet industry)

February 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 3 months)

Nikoworld is an Internet development company focussed on 3D content generation.
Director of Operations

Bertelsmann

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)

June 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 1 month)

As part of Bertelsmann group (Random House, BMG) with more then 600 companies in 51 countries and more then 86,000 employees worldwide, Bertelsmann mediaSystems combines all multimedia activities of the group (e.g. Lycos Europe, Napster).
Project Manager

Bertelsmann

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Publishing industry)

March 1995 — February 1997 (2 years)

• Optimized work-flows in a costumer care center of 750 people
• Conducted workplace analysis
• Led internal Total Quality Management (TQM) Team
• Realized yearly savings of $3.8 Million

Chris Kameir’s Education

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Masters of Law, Law, 1994 — 1998

Contributing Member of the Federal Network Agency's

Activities and Societies:

German-American Lawyers' Association
Universität Bielefeld

Literature, Education 1990 — 1993

Lead classes to prepare students from 24 countries for the German language test

Activities and Societies:

Technical Support Member Faculty of Linguistics, responsible for course database creation and print
Neuro-Linguistic Training Center

Certified NLP Master Practitioner, Neuro Linguistic Programming

Continued Studies in Neuro Linguistic Programming